Private associations organized around a common cult, occupation,
ethnic identity, neighborhood or family were among the principal
means of organizing social and economic life in the ancient
Mediterranean. They offered opportunities for sociability, cultic
activities, mutual support and contexts in which to display and
recognize virtuous achievement. This volume collects 140
inscriptions and papyri from Ptolemaic and early Roman Egypt, along
with translations, notes, commentary, and analytic indices. The
dossier of association-related documents substantially enhances our
knowledge of the extent, activities, and importance of private
associations in the ancient Mediterranean, since papyri,
unavailable from most other locations in the Mediterranean,
preserve a much wider range of data than epigraphical monuments.
The dossier from Egypt includes not only honorific decrees,
membership lists, bylaws, dedications, and funerary monuments, but
monthly accounts of expenditures and income, correspondence between
guild secretaries and local officials, price and tax declarations,
records of legal actions concerning associations, loan documents,
petitions to local authorities about associations, letters of
resignation, and many other papyrological genres. These documents
provide a highly variegated picture of the governance structures
and practices of associations, membership sizes and profiles, and
forms of interaction with the State.
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